July 2011
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My Review of the Kobo App
Given the immense amount of vitriol in the iTunes Store reviews against Kobo’s “decision” to remove the store from our app, I posted a ‘review’ of my own, explaining the decision. I felt this was about the only way I could let people know that we haven’t just decided, capriciously, to yank features from the app. It’s appeared on the Canadian store, but...
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“Aside from not having any links to an e-bookstore, you can’t even mention...”
– Kobo’s Michael Serbinis tells C|Net News about the restrictions placed on the Kobo app by Apple’s new rules.
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[Insert David Bowie Song Title Here]
I’ve hinted over the past couple of weeks that there were big changes coming to the House of Quatermain. This has been in the offing for about the same amount of time—barely two weeks—but those weeks have been full of uncertainty, for one reason or another. The main issue involved my close and extended families, but those have now been resolved, at least for the present.
So...
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Luminary: Springboard-style AQGridView rotation... →
monoceroi:
Use a subclass. HGGridView.m #import "HGGridView.h" @interface AQGridView (HGGridView_KnownPrivateStuff) - (void) handleGridViewBoundsChanged:(CGRect)oldBounds toNewBounds:(CGRect)bounds; @end @implementation HGGridView - (void) handleGridViewBoundsChanged:(CGRect)oldBounds...
You know, I was talking to Eliza Block of the Springboard team about this at WWDC last year. Never got...
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rentzsch.tumblr.com: The Dreaded Tappable Link →
rentzsch:
Dan Moren: Some developers have already begun to make the necessary changes. Last month, video-streaming provider Hulu updated its Hulu Plus iOS app, dropping a link that allowed users to visit the company’s website to sign up for a paid subscription. Others, such as Netflix, have exploited a loophole: The login screen for the video-streaming app tells users to “Visit netflix.com to...